Danse Macabre

A shocking account of the life and times of naked cabaret dancer and film actress, Anita Berber, an icon of Jazz Agw Berlin. Anita was the most provocative personality in decadent Berlin, at a time of complete societal collapse. Incidents like the Spanish flu and the Gret Inflation that rendered the curr3ncy without value had turned the city into a fever dream of out of control behavior. And Anita was at the forefront of the madness, a New Woman: chic, fearless, half-mad, and dangerous in the extreme. This account is well-researched and filled with her scandalous relationships, including many of the love affairs with people like Marlene Dietrich and Lya de Putti. After years of drug addiction, and general abuse, Anita collapsed on her final tour in the mideast, and died at the age of 29. She was buried in a pauper's grave in Berlin in 1928.